Ionic Liquids Research
05/2024 – present
10/2022 – 04/2024
03/2014 – 09/2018
12/2014 – 02/2015
09/2012 – 08/2013
10/2018 – 07/2022
PhD in chemistry in the group of Professor Dr. Tom Welton, working on ionic liquid design.
Highly collaborative project (involving 17 research groups from 10 countries).
Fully funded by the highly competitive 'President's PhD Scholarships' awarded by Imperial College London.
10/2016 – 09/2018
M.Sc. thesis in physical chemistry, topic ‘Combining Theory and Experiment in the Optimization of Ionic Liquids’ (1.0, highest mark).
Overall grade point average 1.0.
10/2013 – 09/2016
B.Sc. thesis in physical chemistry, topic ‘synthesis and ionicity of phosphonium ionic liquids’ (1.0, highest mark).
Overall grade point average 1.0.
07/2024 – present
Member of the Durham Institute of Research, Development, and Invention MDIRDI
05/2019 – present
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy AFHEA
12/2018 – present
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry MRSC
10/2013 – present
Member of the German chemical society (GDCh)
20/12/2024
Frederik Philippi
Lithium Transport in Solvate Electrolytes.Invited Oral presentation at the University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
25/10/2024
Frederik Philippi
Confounding Variables in the Design of Ionic Liquids.Invited Oral presentation for the Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Thermodynamics research axis of the Laboratoire de Chimie, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France.
08/07/2024
Frederik Philippi, Maleen Middendorf, Keisuke Shigenobu, Kaoru Dokko, Masayoshi Watanabe, Monika Schönhoff, Wataru Shinoda, Kazuhide Ueno
Speciation and Ion Correlation in Highly Concentrated Battery Electrolytes.Poster presentation at the Dense Ionic Fluids Faraday Discussion, London, UK.
21/11/2023
Frederik Philippi, Daniel Rauber, Daniel Schroeder, Christopher W. M. Kay, Tom Welton
Highly Symmetric Room Temperature Ionic Liquids.Poster presentation at The 13th Symposium on Ionic Liquids in Japan (第13回イオン液体討論会), Niigata, Japan.
09/06/2023
Frederik Philippi
Science – the tool that made our lives comfortable.Oral presentation at Numazuhigashi Senior High School as part of the JSPS Science Dialogue program. Two hour outreach lecture with question session for approximately 100 high school students.
25/04/2023
Frederik Philippi, Daniel Rauber, Christopher W. M. Kay, Tom Welton
Viscosity and design of imide ionic liquids – flexibility, fluorination, and mass of the anions.Poster presentation at 9th Congress on Ionic Liquids, Lyon, France.
24/04/2023
F. Philippi, K. Shigenobu, K. Dokko, M. Watanabe, K. Ueno
Conductivity vs. Lithium transference – the ongoing search for optimal battery electrolytes.Oral presentation at the 9th Congress on Ionic Liquids in Lyon, France.
21/04/2023
Frederik Philippi
Understanding Ionic Liquids in the bigger picture.Invited oral presentation at the internal seminar of the group of Prof. Dr. C. Kay at Saarland University (Physical Chemistry and Didactics of Chemistry).
24/10/2022
Frederik Philippi
Ionic Liquids. From understanding to Design.Presentation at the Joint Seminar of the Yokohama National University Electrochemistry Lab in Yokohama, Japan.
08/2022
Frederik Philippi, Daniel Rauber, Christopher W. M. Kay, Tom Welton
Viscosity and design of imide ionic liquids – flexibility, fluorination, and mass of the anions.Poster presentation at the Gordon Research Seminar as well as the Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids 2022 in Newry, Maine, USA.
06/2022
Frederik Philippi, Tom Welton, Daniel Dauber, Christopher W. M. Kay, Kira Lieberkind Eliasen, Kristine Niss, Nathalie Bouscharain
Viscosity of Ionic Liquids – How Much Does Charge Matter?Invited oral presentation at the “Viscous liquids and the glass transition. XVIII.” workshop of the Glass and Time Research Centre in Denmark.
06/2022
Frederik Philippi, Tom Welton, Daniel Dauber, Christopher W. M. Kay, Kira Lieberkind Eliasen, Kristine Niss, Nathalie Bouscharain
Viscosity of Ionic Liquids – How Much Does Charge Matter?Oral presentation at the 28th EUCHEM conference on Molten Salts & Ionic Liquids (EUCHEMSIL2022).
03/2022
F.Philippi, T. Welton
Ionic Liquids: Why are they so viscous?Digital poster presentation at the #RSCPoster Twitter Conference 2022
12/2021
F. Philippi, D. Rauber, K. Goloviznina, J. Beckmann, C. W. M. Kay, A. A. H Padua, T. Welton
Ether Groups in Ionic Liquids – is Flexibility Really the Key?Oral presentation at the Virtual Christmas 2021 Meeting of the RSC Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids Discussion Group (MSILDG).
12/10/2021
F. Philippi, D. Rauber, J. Beckmann
Targeted Modifications – how to study ionic liquids.Invited oral presentation during internal seminar of the Ionic Liquids Group at ENS Lyon.
29/09/2021
F. Philippi
Ionic Liquids: Custom Solvents for Future Challenges?Invited poster presentation with pre-recorded flash talk for the Research Showcase 2021 of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London
07/07/2021
F. Philippi
Liquefying Ionic Liquids – Flexibility as design element.Oral presentation at the Imperial College Postgraduate Symposium (Virtual).
03/2021
F. Philippi, T. Welton
Ionic Liquids – Custom Solvents for Future Challenges?Digital poster presentation at the #RSCPoster Twitter Conference 2021.
30/11/2020
F. Philippi
Ionic Liquids and Conformational Flexibility.Invited oral presentation on collective variables and metadynamics during the internal seminar of the Computational NanoElectrochemistry Group at Imperial College London (led by Dr. Clotilde S. Cucinotta).
07/09/2020
F. Philippi
Ionic Liquids in Saarbrücken and London.Invited oral presentation during internal seminar of the group of Prof. Dr. C. Kay at Saarland University (Physical Chemistry and Didactics of Chemistry, virtual).
07/2020
F. Philippi, D. Rauber, R. Hempelmann
Conformational Design Concepts for Anions in Ionic Liquids.Oral presentation at the Virtual 2020 Summer Research Meeting of the RSC Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids Discussion Group (MSILDG).
03/2020
F. Philippi, P. Hunt, T. Welton
Conformational Flexibility in Ionic Liquids – Design your own Anion!Digital poster presentation at the #RSCPoster Twitter Conference 2020.
25/07/2019
F. Philippi
Liquefying Ionic Liquids – An Overview.Oral presentation for a visiting researcher (Ekaterina Izgorodina) during internal seminar.
2019
F. Philippi
Making Ionic Liquids Useful by Understanding Their Fundamental Behaviour.Poster presentation at the President’s PhD Scholars Symposium 2019.
17/01/2019
F. Philippi
Making Ends Meet.Oral presentation during internal meeting with the groups of Guang Feng (University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China) and Alexei Kornyshev (Imperial College London).
12/2018
F. Philippi, D. Rauber, R. Hempelmann
Pushing Fluidity to its Limits: Multiple Ether Functionalisation in Phosphonium Ionic Liquids.Oral presentation at the Christmas 2018 Research Meeting of the RSC Molten Salts Discussion Group (MSDG), Burlington House, London.
04/08/2024 – 09/08/2024
Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids 2024 in Maine, USA
03/08/2024 – 04/08/2024
Gordon Research Seminar on Ionic Liquids 2024 in Maine, USA
08/07/2024 – 10/07/2024
Dense ionic fluids Faraday Discussion, Burlington House, London, United Kingdom.
21/11/2023 – 22/22/2023
The 13th Symposium on Ionic Liquids in Japan (第13回イオン液体討論会), Niigata, Japan
08/02/2023
JSPS Orientation, Co Mo Re Yotsuya tower, Tokyo, Japan.
23/10/2022
“Water Matters” Nobel Prize Dialogue Tokyo 2022, Special Guest (JSPS fellow), PACIFICO Yokohama Conference Center, Yokohama, Japan
07/08/2022 – 12/08/2022
Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids 2022 in Maine, USA
06/08/2022 – 07/08/2022
Gordon Research Seminar on Ionic Liquids 2022 in Maine, USA
23/06/2022 – 25/06/2022
Workshop “Viscous liquids and the glass transition. XVIII.” of the Glass and Time Research Centre in Denmark
05/06/2022 – 10/06/2022
28th EUCHEM conference on Molten Salts & Ionic Liquids (EUCHEMSIL2022) in Patras, Greece.
13/12/2021
MSILDG Christmas meeting
05/07/2021 – 09/07/2021
Advanced School in Soft Condensed Matter – Solutions in the Summer 2021 (Summer School, held online remotely)
01/10/2018 – 01/07/2022
MARS professional recognition scheme
28/05/2019
5th Annual President’s PhD Scholars Symposium, Imperial College London
17/12/2018
MSILDG Christmas meeting
18/11/2023
Excellent poster award at the 13th Symposium on Ionic Liquids in Japan (第13回イオン液体討論会), Niigata, Japan
13/02/2023
MSCA fellowship (Project number 101108104, budget 195914.88 €)
01/08/2022
FY2022 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (Standard) (18 Months, P22775, 6516000 ¥, additionally 1100000 ¥ KAKENHI “Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research”, grant number 22F22775)
01/04/2022
Conference funding to participate in the Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids 2022, General Fund of the Imperial College Trust (400 £).
03/2022
1st Place #RSCPhys Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 #RSCPoster Twitter Conference (120 £).
25/03/2022
RSC Researcher Development Grant to participate in EUCHEMSIL2022 (grant number D22-183, 500 £).
07/2021
First prize for the best presentation / talk at the Imperial College Postgraduate Symposium, section Environmental and Green Chemistry (100 £).
24/02/2020
RSC competitive travel grant (grant number T20-3008, 770.60 £) for participation in the Gordon Research Conference on Ionic Liquids 2020.
10/2018 – 31/03/2022
President’s PhD Scholarship (provided by Imperial College London , 73458 £, additionally 6000 £ consumables).
10/2014 – 09/2017
Deutschlandstipendium fellow (a scholarship provided by Evonik industries, 7200 €.
05/2017
GDCh award for an excellent bachelor’s degree in chemistry.